Peer Support

What is Peer Support/Youth Support?

Peer Support services can take a variety of forms, such as providing information about services or self-care, supporting the development of skills, and facilitating access to services and resources. Certified Peer Support Specialists work with clients to help them regain balance, control of their lives, and support recovery. The Certified Peer Specialist relates practices from their own lived experience and experiential knowledge. This helps the Certified Peer Specialist to work from a place of recovery using language based on past experience — rather than clinical terminology — to relate to you and assist you to accomplish your goals.

 

How can Peer Support help me and/or my child?

Peer Support Specialists work with the participant towards outcomes including, but not limited to:

  • Sense of purpose

  • Increase empowerment

  • Belief that recovery is possible

  • Increase self-esteem

  • Ability to self-advocate

  • Increase participation in community and positive activities

  • Ability to identify and use wellness tools

  • Ability to live more independently

  • Re-engage with lost support systems

  • Increase education, employment and/or volunteerism

  • Improve housing situation

  • Improve quality of life

 

How does Peer Support work?

Peer Support services are non-clinical and designed to help initiate and sustain the individual in their recovery. Services provided by the Peer Support Specialist are voluntary and include, but are not limited to:

  • Role model behaviors, attitudes, and skills that promote recovery, wellness, resiliency, and coping

  • Assist participants with identifying and utilizing their strengths

  • Role model the facilitation of collaborative relationships

  • Link participant to professional treatment when necessary

  • Assist with the development of community supports

  • Assist at peer and consumer operated programs

  • Assist with substance-free physical and recreational activities

  • Advocate for the needs of participants

  • Peer mentoring

  • Facilitate support groups

  • Assist participant to engage or re-engage with participant’s natural supports (e.g. family, friends, other loved ones, neighbors)

  • Facilitate job readiness training

  • Facilitate wellness and recovery seminars

  • Provide educational materials or programs

  • Assist in the development of participants’ goals

  • Assist participant to develop self-advocacy and problem-solving skills

 

How do I receive Peer Support/Youth Support Services?

  1. Contact InRoads Mental Health by calling (208) 888-8887.

  2. We will schedule a time to visit you, take time to understand your situation, and perform a comprehensive assessment to determine if you qualify.

  3. We will create a plan with you based on your goals.